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    Study break doodles

    By Frank Meaker
    Frank Meaker
    Published: Dec. 8, 2010

    During the final weeks of each semester amidst extended study sessions, students blow off steam in fits of both visual and rhetorical creativity on the whiteboards throughout Perry-Castañeda Library.

    Perry-Castañeda Library’s intrepid staffer Frank Meaker has been documenting these curious drawings since March 2010, and now we share with you some of the finer examples.

    Check out more whiteboard photos on the Perry-Castañeda Library Flickr page.

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      Natalie S. said on Dec. 8, 2010 at 6:39 p.m.
      The Calvin and Hobbes one is the best
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      Tweets that mention Study break doodles « Know -- Topsy.com said on Dec. 9, 2010 at 9:48 a.m.
      [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by UTexas MPA, NaturalSciences @ UT. NaturalSciences @ UT said: Student folk art. Love it. http://bit.ly/f8DvR2 #ut [...]
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      Sundar said on Dec. 9, 2010 at 4:13 p.m.
      Love the monster eating the circuit diagram.
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      Matt P said on Dec. 9, 2010 at 4:52 p.m.
      Bahahaha!!! Big thanks to Frank, the Know team and all my crazy fellow students out of whose heads these crazy imaginative masterpieces fall out...funny how the stress of finals elicits the best ones. : ) Great study break! : D Back to work I guess... : / Only two papers left! : D
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      Vidhu Shekhar Chaturvedi said on Dec. 9, 2010 at 8:17 p.m.
      Thanks to you Mr. Frank Meaker for offering us such deliciously delightful insight. I love my students even more now.
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      Alex said on Dec. 10, 2010 at 2:32 p.m.
      this is nothing compared to what you'll find in the women's bathroom in burdine!
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      Whew. - anecdotes said on Dec. 11, 2010 at 8:51 p.m.
      [...] charming slideshow of doodles left on the whiteboards in the main library (the PCL) at [...]
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      Bill said on Oct. 2 at 7:02 p.m.
      This is so sad. It's a waste of webspace to even publish it.

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